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I got a copy of this last week. It's a really great album, and another great Blue Note album cover. I was looking at the cover, and though I recognized the font on the magazine Herbie's holding. I googled "Playboy 1963 covers" and sure enough, it looks like the November 1963 Playboy. The album was recorded August 30, 1963. Any guesses when the photo might have been taken? Or has anyone ever heard anything about the cover?
The photo could have been taken in October, when the November issue probably would have hit the stands. Or maybe it was taken later in Nov, Dec, Jan, and the November Playboy was meant as some sort of weird nod/tribute to JFK?
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It's a prerecorded cassette & it sounds truly awful. Great music, though. Gotta get a better copy one of these days.
Cheers,
Bobbo :-)
Picked it up about 10 years ago for $60 bucks I think. And I thought it was an extraordinarily expensive LP then.
Haha. I'll give you $60 and my Liberty pressing for it. That's enough to buy a moderately expensive record, almost.
I keep going back and forth with the mono switch on my preamp with this one. It sounds nice either way, but I think the music on this record is really suited to mono, since it's so rhythmic and minimal. Well, relatively minimal, anyway.
I never paid much attention to the magazine he was holding - cool!
Just in case others don't know - this LP was reissued in the 70s under the title "Succotash" and co-billed with Willie Bobo with a completely different cover. Oh, and I think the reissue flips the Sides - but the music is the same. This reissue version is wayyy cheaper than an original or reissue with the original cover.
Yeah, if I didn't win the Liberty pressing I got last week, I was probably going to go with the "Succotash" release.
It really is a great and really unique record. Every time I listen to it, I like it more and more.
There is also a Scorpio pressing, and a recent-ish Heavenly Sweetness reissue that is probably digital as well, but is a lot easier than hunting down anything like an original. I kept my eye out for over a year on ebay before I found mine. But any way you go, you're way better off having this record than not having it.
thanks for the word on the hancock. will keep my eye out for it.
last night i spun wayne shorters adams apple reissue lp. its great music but the pressing is not perfect.
-andre d
A solid blue label is likely your best bet - $15 or so on ebay. I have heard a DMM recently and it wasn't too shabby either.
I'm waiting on the Music Matters 45 of Adam's Apple. I'm still only two years into listening to jazz, so there are still some glaring holes like Adam's Apple and Speak No Evil in my collection. I have cds to hold me over until I get the vinyl. Both 45s are up for pre-orders on the various sites, Acoustic Sounds, Elusive Disc, etc. The 45's will just be easier than finding a nice older copy, and since they're both such fantastic records, I won't mind flipping the records more often at all.
But I'm listening to my 70's blue label of Jackie McLean's "One Step Beyond" right now and it sounds nice. They can be a good value if you can find them in NM shape at $25 or less(usually less, but I did pay $25 for this McLean record because it was at a local shop and I was trading stuff in and I was really jonesing for it). There's a 45 of it coming out about right now, but I think I'll just stick with the blue label.
The 45 speed reissues sound amazing. A friend subscribed to the Blue Notes when they came out and has every one of them. He has so many LPs that a third of the 45s are still sealed! I have benefitted because he usually has a duplicate copy to sell once the 45 copy arrives. I briefly had the 45 version of Larry Young's "Unity" I snagged used for $20. It sounded awesome. My current Japanese King 33 pressing of "Unity" is good enough for me.
My main table is a PTP4 version of a Lenco L75 and I only spin 33.3. It would be a pain to change speeds. The thrifter in me also likes the idea of occasionally finding a first pressing or early pressing for around $10 to $15, versus the $60 for a new 45 speed LP.
I have been collecting and listening to jazz LPs for nearly ten years, after first going crazy with jazz CDs. I too still have holes in my collection. For example, I somehow ended up not having Cannonball Adderley's "Somethin' Else." I don't want any old copy and won't pay through the nose, so I am still looking.
Do you have the first 4 Elvin Jones LPs on Blue Note? They are sensational. Clean first pressings can be had for $10 to $15. I rank them with any other Blue Note LP - really, really cool!
I just heard back from Music Matters that they are going to be doing Inventions & Dimensions. I'll snap that up for sure. I like the Liberty pressing, but I'll definitely want to hear the 45 of this one!
Thanks for the heads up on "Succotash." Top 3 jazz albums on my to-buy list are Inventions and Dimensions, Something Else and Black Saint & Sinner Lady. Haven't had much luck with cheap used copies in good condition, but still holding out...
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